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Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

The optimal transport (OT) problem has been used widely for machine learning. It is necessary for computation of an OT problem to solve linear programming with tight mass-conservation constraints. These constraints prevent its application…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai

Optimal transport (OT)-based methods have a wide range of applications and have attracted a tremendous amount of attention in recent years. However, most of the computational approaches of OT do not learn the underlying transport map.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-20 Andrés Hoyos-Idrobo

Computing optimal transport (OT) between measures in high dimensions is doomed by the curse of dimensionality. A popular approach to avoid this curse is to project input measures on lower-dimensional subspaces (1D lines in the case of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Boris Muzellec , Marco Cuturi

In many machine learning applications, it is necessary to meaningfully aggregate, through alignment, different but related datasets. Optimal transport (OT)-based approaches pose alignment as a divergence minimization problem: the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-05 John Lee , Max Dabagia , Eva L. Dyer , Christopher J. Rozell

Sparse signal recovery or compressed sensing can be formulated as certain sparse optimization problems. The classic optimization theory indicates that the Newton-like method often has a numerical advantage over the gradient method for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Nan Meng , Yun-Bin Zhao

The paper proposes and justifies a new algorithm of the proximal Newton type to solve a broad class of nonsmooth composite convex optimization problems without strong convexity assumptions. Based on advanced notions and techniques of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Xiaoming Yuan , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

We study the problem of minimizing a sum of convex objective functions where the components of the objective are available at different nodes of a network and nodes are allowed to only communicate with their neighbors. The use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Aryan Mokhtari , Qing Ling , Alejandro Ribeiro

Semi-discrete optimal transport problems, which evaluate the Wasserstein distance between a discrete and a generic (possibly non-discrete) probability measure, are believed to be computationally hard. Even though such problems are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Bahar Taskesen , Soroosh Shafieezadeh-Abadeh , Daniel Kuhn

Optimal Transport (OT) is a mathematical framework that first emerged in the eighteenth century and has led to a plethora of methods for answering many theoretical and applied questions. The last decade has been a witness to the remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Abdelwahed Khamis , Russell Tsuchida , Mohamed Tarek , Vivien Rolland , Lars Petersson

Hard-thresholding-based algorithms have seen various advantages for sparse optimization in controlling the sparsity and allowing for fast computation. Recent research shows that when techniques of the Newton-type methods are integrated,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Shenglong Zhou

The Quickest Transshipment Problem is to route flow as quickly as possible from sources with supplies to sinks with demands in a network with capacities and transit times on the arcs. It is of fundamental importance for numerous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Miriam Schlöter , Martin Skutella , Khai Van Tran

We propose several new nonsmooth Newton methods for solving convex composite optimization problems with polyhedral regularizers, while avoiding the computation of complicated second-order information on these functions. Under the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Tran T. A. Nghia , Nghia V. Vo , Khoa V. H. Vu

Support vector classification (SVC) with logistic loss has excellent theoretical properties in classification problems where the label values are not continuous. In this paper, we reformulate the hyperparameter selection for SVC with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Yixin Wang , Qingna Li

Optimal transport (OT) has gained popularity due to its various applications in fields such as machine learning, statistics, and signal processing. However, the balanced mass requirement limits its performance in practical problems. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yikun Bai , Ivan Medri , Rocio Diaz Martin , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Soheil Kolouri

This paper details a novel indirect method for solving constrained optimal control problems (OCPs) directly in continuous-time function space. The KKT conditions are embedded in a non-smooth complementarity function, which enables their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Simon J. Jones , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Marco M. Nicotra

This paper introduces a framework that utilizes the Safe Screening technique to accelerate the optimization process of the Unbalanced Optimal Transport (UOT) problem by proactively identifying and eliminating zero elements in the sparse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Xun Su , Zhongxi Fang , Hiroyuki Kasai

A technique for accelerating global convergence of pseudo-transient continuation Newton methods is proposed based on residual smoothing. The technique is motivated by the effectiveness of local nonlinear smoothers at overcoming strong…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Dimitri Mavriplis

Optimal transport (OT), which provides a distance between two probability distributions by considering their spatial locations, has been applied to widely diverse applications. Computing an OT problem requires solution of linear programming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Takumi Fukunaga , Hiroyuki Kasai